Games and Information - Hardcover

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9781557865021: Games and Information

Synopsis

Widely adopted in its first edition, this pathbreaking textbook has now been substantially enlarged and updated to reflect the increasing importance in economic research and teaching of non-cooperative game theory and information economics.
There are two new chapters on non-cooperative games and entry deterrence and substantially revised material on, for exaple: * Auditing * Nuisance suits * Super-moduilarity * Market microstructure * Government procurement The second edition of Games and Informationm includes even more problems (with solutions) than before, making the book indispensable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of game theory and microeconomics.

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About the Author

Eric Rasmusen is Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Sanjay Subhedar Faculty Fellow at Indiana University, and has also held positions at UCLA, the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale. He has published in the areas of anti-trust, industrial organization, political economy, law and economics, and game theory.

From the Back Cover

Widely praised when the first edition appeared, Games and Information has been substantially enlarged and updated in the second edition. The text continues to reflect the importance in economic research of non-cooperative game theory and information economics. The topics of non-cooperative games and entry deterrence have been given their own chapters added on auditing, nuisance suits, recoordination and renegotiation, super moduality, signal jamming, market microstructure and government procurement. Many new chapters have been added and the number of homework problems has been greatly expanded.

Eric Rasmusen writes in a crisp and approachable style, relying wherever possible on explanation in place of technical proofs. The book will be an indispensable tool for advanced microeconomics courses and of considerable interest to anyone who needs to understand the economic research of the last ten years.

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